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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Achievement test
Standard deviation
Attention
Reliability
2. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
ESL
Whole Language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
3. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Phonological Awareness
Dyslexia
Whole Language
ESL
4. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Top-down Reading Approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Middle English
Stanine Scores
5. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Standard score
ALTA
Texas Education Code 28.06
6. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Macron
IMSLEC
MSLE
Base Word
7. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Standard deviation
Social language
Tilde
8. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Cognition
Diphthong
Multisensory
Age equivalent
9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Chall's Stage 2
Standardized test
Kinesthetic
Frank Smith
10. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Analytic
Matthew Effect
Phonics
11. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
NICHD
Achievement test
Mastery level
12. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Diagnostic tests
Reliability
Middle English
Criterion-Referenced Test
13. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Open Syllable
Attention
Joe Torgesen
14. State Board of Eduation
Phonics
SBOE
Chall's Stage 4
Accuracy
15. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Criterion-Referenced Test
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Vowel
16. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
RTI
[-'le
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
17. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Percentile
Simultaneous teaching
Consonant Digraph
Standard Scores
18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Combination
Standard score
Keith Stanovich
IDEA
19. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
SBOE
Combination
Funding
Towre
20. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Chall's Stage 3
Trigraph
Closed Syllable
21. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Great Vowel Shift
Oral Language
Rate
Morphology
22. Open syllable
V >
Cognition
Reading Comprehension Support
MSL
23. English as a second language
ESL
Samuel T. Orton
Multi-Sensory Approach
Base Word
24. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Sight Words
Greek layer of language
Matthew Effect
CTOPP
25. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Visual Learners
Greek layer of language
Diphthong
Analytic
26. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Adolf Kusmaul
Reliability
WRAT
MSLE
27. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
CTOPP
The Norman Conquest
Accent
28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Standard score
Funding
Greek layer of language
Letter naming Chart
29. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
MSLE
James Hinshelwood
Consonant
Dyslexia
30. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Keith Stanovich
Reliability
Standard deviation
VAKT
31. Academic Language Therapy Association
Age equivalent
Modern English
CTOPP
ALTA
32. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
GORT
Grapheme
Chall's Stage 0
Diagnostic Teaching
33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
IMSLEC
Macron
Phoneme
34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Cognition
Samuel T. Orton
WIATII
VV
35. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Open Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
Greek layer of language
36. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Great Vowel Shift
Macron
VC
37. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Dyslexia
Rate
GORT
38. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Texas Education Code 38.003
Visual Processing
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
39. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Multisensory
Morphology
Tilde
Phoneme
40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Standard Scores
Adolf Kusmaul
Base Word
Chall's Stage 2
41. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Standard deviation
CTOPP
Letter naming Chart
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
42. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Expressive language
ESL
Frank Smith
Phoneme
43. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Frank Smith
Sound Symbol Association
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Analytic
44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
The Norman Conquest
Modern English
Sound Symbol Association
45. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
IDEA
Funding
Suffix
46. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Raw score
Chall's Stage 1
Syllable
47. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
GORT
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Direct Instruction
Phonics approach
48. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Syntax
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Grapheme
49. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 0
Curriculum referenced tests
Receptive language
50. Feeling through fingertips
Matthew Effect
Tactile
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Composite Score
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